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Sunday, 24 May 2009

Two nice things before the sad thing.

This guy made me smile on the subway. Note the footgear. (Look out, feetman seoul! I'm moving in on your turf!)One nice thing about the older urban spaces in Seoul is the way every once in a while, roses start spilling all over everything.And finally, something that you have to prepare for, and not be surprised at, if you come to Korea:

Yep. The cleaning lady in the men's room. Protocol is: let her do her job, and stand a little bit closer than usual.

4 comments:

Rob- After reading the Korea Blogs this weekend, I felt disheartend. RMH suicide is tragic, he was a man. He lived and breathed, drank soju and got hungover like everyone else. It's sad to see how heartless expat bloggers can be about this issue. I feel as if I spent the weekend reading Dave's ESL bottomfeeding comments.

How about coming out of a stall and finding not one woman, but two women, staring at you after you have done your business? And this was on my first airport bus trip to Daejeon after we had stopped at a rest area for a quick bite. It was definitely an unique "welcome to South Korea."

ME! (in photo form)

"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame IT, blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place." -Rainer Maria Rilke